No. 40 Bulldogs Prepare to Host Yale Womens Intercollegiate

Sep 25, 2009

Four Ivy League Teams to Attend

NEW HAVEN, Conn. - With one tournament win already in the bag,
the No. 40 Yale women's golf team is preparing to host its
only tournament of the season. The Yale Women's
Intercollegiate will feature 13 teams and be held Sept. 26-27 at
The Course at Yale. The teams will play 36 holes on Saturday,
followed by 18 more on Sunday.

"I always like our chances, especially playing 36 holes on
Saturday," said head coach Chawwadee Rompothong ‘00.
"Everyone is playing well and if we keep it up, we should bring
home the title."

The tournament will be played on the world famous Yale golf
course. The course was designed by Charles Blair Macdonald, the
renowned golf course architect, champion golfer and co-founder of
the USGA. He collaborated with Seth Raynor and Charles Banks to
design the course, which was opened in 1926. The course is
recognized as one of the finest examples of early American golf
course design with large deeply bunkered greens and narrow rolling
fairways. The course has been the site of every significant state
championship, two USGA Junior National events, the 1991, 2004, and
2010 NCAA Eastern Regional championships and both the men's and
women's ECAC Championships. It has been voted the No.1
College Golf Course in America and No.45 of the Top 100 Classical
Golf Courses in America. In 1988, it was ranked by Golf Magazine as
71st among the 100 most difficult courses in the world.

This year the Bulldogs will welcome 13 teams to the Yale golf
course, including four Ivy League rivals. Competing from the
Ivy League will be Brown, Dartmouth, Harvard and Penn.
Harvard is the defending Ivy League Champion, having beaten Yale by
just two strokes.

The Bulldogs struggled here last year thanks to a shortened
tournament caused by rain. They ended up finishing
sixth. Junior Harriet Owers-Bradley led the team with a round
of 75, placing her in a tie for ninth place. But in the past
the Bulldogs have experienced much success at their own tournament.
Two years ago, the Bulldogs won the Yale Women's Intercollegiate by
eight strokes over Harvard. The tournament was won by
Yale's Lindsay Hong `08, while last year's captain,
senior Natasha Spackey, finished just one stroke behind Hong
to take third place.

All eight Yale players will get the opportunity to compete this
weekend. Last week, the Bulldogs won the Towson Invitational
and broke the all-time Yale scoring record for a single
round. The Bulldogs carded a second round of 292, eclipsing
the previous mark of 296 by four strokes. Freshman Alexandra
Lipa led the Bulldogs to victory, winning the individual first
place trophy. She was the only player to shoot under-par for
the tournament with a two-round total of 139 (-1).
Owers-Bradley and junior Alyssa Roland also placed in the top
five. Roland took fourth place, while Owers-Bradley followed
closely in fifth.

The Bulldogs will tee-off early Saturday morning. Shuttle
buses will be leaving from Payne Whitney Gymnasium for spectators
to head out to the course.